The changing census

For a warm-up in class, we were looking at the Demographics of the United States, who really is the “United States”. Now while I was looking trough some articles online when I found some really shocking facts. A report in August 2008 from the Census Bureau projects that by 2042 non-Hispanic whites will no longer make up the majority of the population. This projection is not shocking since this is one of the top ten immigration states for Hispanics. So what’s the big deal, they are just people. Well the make up of the Hispanic population does not want to stay; they just want economic relief from their previous country. They would much rather be in their own. That changes the game play a lot, especially on the way the presidential campaigners have to “throw the ball”. Instead of the 15% of Hispanic population that we are currently dealing with as well as Non-Hispanic whites as 68%. The Projection is going to change from 2008 with the models we have already seen and now morph into the new model that may shape the United States into a different country. The new statistics in 2050 are planned out look like 46% of Non-Hispanic whites and Hispanics as 30%. This new foresight is indeed a model, just like any foresight model, it might be wrong, changing as the world changes (as well as unknown variables). If the cards are played right and we do end up with this as our census for 2050, expect that the standards on the presidential campaign’s list will change dramatically as the majority changes.